THE SHIPPING FIGHT.
COMMONWEALTH v. COMBINE. A SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) deceived Last Night, 10.45 o'clock. MELBOURNE, July 21. At the final session of the Premiers' Conference the lU. Hon. Win. Hughes created a sensation by declining to prolong the Federal wheat pool, declaring that each State must look after its own producers in. the coming harvest. The action is apparently the outcome of tho conflict between the Com- - monwealth line of steamers and the Shipping Combine, which, Mr Hughes informed the Conference, was trying to drive the Federal line off the.seas. He stated that the fight was being waged on lines which entirely deprived the Federal steamers of back- loading to Australia. In view of this, the States will be in a pr«-arious position when shifting next harvest, as it is inferred that the combine will refuse to handle any of the new crop unless given tho transport of the whole. Tho Federal steamers will only be able to move a small part. The State Ministers of Agriculture* meet on Friday to consider the matter.
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Wairarapa Age, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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